Migrants return to Venezuela after US veto

Venezuelan migrants are welcomed by family and friends at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in La Guaira State.

The migrants decided to return to their home country, Venezuela, after a failed attempt to reach the United States.

The United States has been deporting Venezuelan migrants who try to enter the United States by foot without travel documents.

Two planes from Panama with some 70 migrants arrived at the Simón Bolívar airport in Maiquetía (La Guaira, north), which serves Caracas.

Another, with about 300, arrived a little before midnight from Mexico. The day before, another hundred returned.

On October 13, after more than 150,000 Venezuelans arrived in the United States through the land border in a year, Washington imposed a new protocol to curb this wave of migration, which also became a political controversy ahead of the elections. mid-term.

The new regulations provide for the entry of 24,000 Venezuelans through a program that requires entry by air and endorsed by a sponsor. And thanks to an agreement, Washington will be able to expel to Mexico anyone who enters illegally through the land border.

Since Venezuela and the United States have not had diplomatic relations since 2019, they can hardly deport undocumented immigrants back to their country.